Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen

Date of Birth: 22 Nov 1965

Country: Denmark

Biography: A synonym to the great success the Danish film industry has had since the mid-1990s. Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in "Pusher", he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors.

Total Credits at Criticker: 47 (Actor)

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    Flickering Lights
    Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, starting a new life, renovating the house and forming it into a restaurant. But they can't avoid being caught up by their past. (imdb)
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    The Green Butchers
    This comedy about two friends who start their own butcher shop combines the trite, the morbid and the amusing. (Newmarket Films)
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    King Arthur
    A spectacular, epic tale of one man's destiny to become a king. (Touchstone Pictures)
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    Open Hearts
    Cecilie is devastated when her fiance Joachim is seriously injured in a car accident and is paralysed from the waist down. She begins an affair with Niels, a doctor at the hospital where Joachim is being treated. Their relationship is further complicated by the fact that the doctor's wife Marie was the driver that caused the accident in the first place. (imdb)
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    Torremolinos 73
    In Franco's puritanical Spain of 1973, a struggling encyclopedia salesman named Alfredo and his wife Carmen change their fortunes overnight when they agree to make their own Super 8 erotic 'educational' films to be sold in Scandinavia. (First Run Features)
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    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold... (imdb)
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    Pusher
    Frank is a drug pusher on the roll, until he makes a huge deal with dope that he hasn't payed for, and he gets busted by the police... (imdb)
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    Casino Royale
    In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
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    After the Wedding
    Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, After the Wedding is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness. (IFC Films)
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    Adam\
    A wickedly dark comedy about a middle-aged neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church.
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    Bleeder
    Leo and Louise are a young couple living together in Copenhagen. Leo often goes out with his friends while Louise usually stays home. But when Louise tells Leo she's pregnant, a spark is ignited and Leo begins to become cold and distant. His anger and self-hatred finally erupt into violence against Louise. (imdb)
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    Prag
    The story of Christoffer and Maja's trip to the city of Prague - a beautiful, aging city, but also a city choked by a rigid and dated eastern-block mentality... (imdb)
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    Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands
    Upon Tonny's release from jail, he begins working for his gang boss father as a car thief and finds out he has fathered a child.
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    Flammen & Citronen
    While the danish population hopes for the end of the war, the Flame and the Lemon fights the germans, wtih their lives at stake.
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    En Kort en lang
    Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl... (imdb)
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    Nu
    Nu (2003) - Short Film
    A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night... (imdb)
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    Exit
    Thomas's investment company is about to finalize its most lucrative deal ever. But just then, the buyers divulge that they have crucial information about the company's unorthodox methods--information that could only come from beyond the grave...
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    Valhalla Rising
    1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the darkness.
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    Die Tür
    A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems. (imdb)
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    Clash of the Titans
    The mortal son of the god Zeus embarks on a perilous journey to stop the underworld and its minions from spreading their evil to Earth as well as the heavens.
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    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    Chronicles the romantice relationship between Stravinsky and Chanel.
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    Vildspor
    Carrying 42 grams of heroin and keeping a deadly secret to himself, charming desperado Ossy tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy, with whom he spent years in Bangkok getting high on women, whisky and cocaine. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past and throws Ossy out. Ossy swears revenge, even if it means destroying Jimmy, his family - and himself. (imdb)
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    Muumi ja punainen pyrstötähti
    One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley - everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, the Moominhouse, too! Moomintroll runs to ask the well-read Muskrat if he knows what is happening. Muskrat declares that this is the way things tend to look like before the earth faces an awful fate coming from the sky... (imdb)
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    Dykkerdrengen
    Dykkerdrengen (2003) - Short Film
    Donald is obsessed with diving, and lives in an apartment with his alcoholic father, who himself has a past as a sports diver. Though his father's abuse is closely watched by social services, Donald is 100% loyal to him. For it's been promised that if the father stays away from the bottle, they can travel together to the south and take a diving holiday.
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    The Three Musketeers
    The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. (imdb)
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    A Royal Affair
    A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with his physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. (mubi.com)
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    The Hunt
    Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a slight comment. A random lie. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. (mubi.com)
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    Charlie Countryman
    Traveling abroad, Charlie Countryman falls for Gabi, a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in Nigel, her violent, charismatic ex. As the darkness of Gabi's past increasingly envelops him, Charlie resolves to win her heart, or die trying. (sundance.org)
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    Michael Kohlhaas
    In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored. (imdb)
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    NWR
    NWR (2012) - TV Movie
    A documentary about Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Festival in 2011 for Drive. From his childhood to the shooting of his next movie, Only God Forgives, in Thailand, discover the whole carrier of a truly visionary filmmaker. With Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noé, PeterPeter, Zlatko Buric. (imdb)
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    The Salvation
    In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone. (imdb)
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    Men & Chicken
    Men and Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers, who by getting to know their unknown family also discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives. (imdb)
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    Hannibal
    Hannibal (2013) - TV Series
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    Rejseholdet
    Rejseholdet (2000) - TV Series
    A mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases. (imdb)
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    Doctor Strange
    A neurosurgeon with a destroyed career sets out to repair his hands only to find himself protecting the world from inter-dimensional threats.
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    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans.
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    Move On
    An unusual road trip beginning in the Netherlands takes a series of unexpected turns through Germany and Eastern Europe. (imdb)
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    Arctic
    Follows a man stranded in the Arctic, who is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation. (imdb)
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    At Eternity\
    A look at Vincent van Gogh's time in Arles. (imdb)
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    Polar
    The world's top assassin, Duncan Vizla, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with an army of younger killers. (imdb)
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    Another Round
    Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. (imdb)
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    Chaos Walking
    A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each others' thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. (imdb)
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    Riders of Justice
    Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
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    Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    The third installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' series which follows the adventures of Newt Scamander (imdb.com).
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    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
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    Bastarden
    The story of Ludvig Kahlen who pursued his lifelong dream: To make the heath bring him wealth and honor.
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    Nattens engel
    Rebecca has inherited her grandmother’s Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire.
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